Meet the Officers
Applications are paused for the CDC FLIGHT program, Class of 2024. Please check this website in Fall 2024 for information on the CDC FLIGHT, Class of 2025 application process.
Meet the FLIGHT officers, and learn where they are currently assigned. Note: the assignments listed do not reflect outbreak or other emergency response efforts.
Shanice Battle, PhD, MPH (NCHHSTP/DSTDP/OD)
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Division of STD Prevention in the Office of the Director
Laura Castro, DrPH, MPH (NCIRD/ID/GIB)
Influenza Division in National Center of Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) in the Global Influenza Branch (GIB)
Mellisa Roskosky, PhD, MSPH (NCEZID/DFWED/OD)
Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases in the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Alfonso Hernandez-Romieu MD, MPH (LCDR, USPHS)
CDC National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Division of Vector-Borne Diseases
Alyson Cavanaugh, DPT, MPH, PhD (LT, USPHS)
CDC National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases
Katherine Franc, DVM, MPH
CDC Center for Global Health
Division of Global Health Protection
Farrell Tobolowsky, DO, MS
CDC Center For Global Health
Global Immunization Division
Michelle Waltenburg, DVM, MPH
CDC National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology
Nathan Furukawa, MD
CDC National Center for HIV/AIDs, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention
Division of Viral Hepatitis
Alexandra Medley, DVM
CDC National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases
John Rossow, DVM
CDC Center for Global Health
Division of Global Health Protection
Emily Curren, DVM, MPH
CDC National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Division of Healthcare Quality and Promotion
Robert McDonald, MD, MPH (LCDR, USPHS)
CDC National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention
Alison Winstead, MD
CDC Center for Global Health
Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria